The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-09-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

1 COSJ VI tuC iVCVho tVNc po.Af~O
TO the men and operators Is estimated
at q, 100000.
----Americus, Ca, has obtained the
cheapest railroad in the world. She
has secured about twenty-eight miles
of railroad, with full and complete con-
troll over it, for $4,000.
In Westfield, Mass, toads collect
At night in great numbers under the
electric lights on the more quiet streets
and there merrily chase the shadows OF
the countless insects that futter around
the light. .,.,l f
The small boy wishes some OF those
| people who feel so shocked or grieved
because he goes in swimming without
clothing, would chip in literally for
bathing suit.--Boston Globe.
Tho small boy doesn't know any
thing about the great law Of compensa-
tion, but he realizes with fiendish sat
isfaction that even if sliding tracks are
out of season the banana peel Is still
with him.
| One evening recently n tall pine
| tree in front of u Western farmers
dwelling was struck, killing nineteen
hogs, ten shoats, four pigs and five sows
and crippling two Notn bruised spot
could be seen on any of them. ~
Experiments made in France in
"deep sea- photography have been
successful. With camera and the
electric incandescent light it is said to
be possible to photograph sunken ships.
and make simpler the Divers perilous
work.
The English co-operatives have a
bank whose transactions amount to
$50. 100000 year. They have 1,40O
stores and do business of $3.50, 600, 900
year. Their 100000 members receive
an annual profit of $15,000,000. Their
profits during the past twenty-four
years have been $3.50, 100000.
-Uncle-"So. my dear boy, you
haven't forgotten your uncle's birthday,
have youp You have bought this nice
smoking-cap to present me. Thanks,
little nephew. Here's half dollar for
you" Little Nephew -"Boo-ooo-ooh
II cost dollar and half!'4Ieras
Sittings.
"A Washington lady was canning
and picking peaches, and her little
-and-a-half-ycar-old daughter was
endeavoring to assist her in every
available way. Finally package of
whole cloves was produced. which were
to be inserted in the fruit for spice,
when the little one suddenly exclaimed:
20 mamma, let me put in the tacks!'
Farm and F..restde. teu.
City Editor-"Just in time. want
you to rush out to the fair grounds, go
up in that balloon, and write-"
Reporter Well. now,
don't know about that; have family
to support" That's so; didn't think
of that. I'll send young Jones, and
you take his job. Hurry up and stop
him." "What is his jobp' II want
him to write up fve-colnmn article
on the smallpox hospital. - Omaha
World.
| "A mad dog attacked Mrs. Henry
Bickle, near Louisville, and William
Eichen, a young newly landed German
employed by Biekle, went to her rescue
and strangled the brute, but not before
his hands and arms had been badly bit
ten. AS soon as Biekle learned that
the dog was mad, and that Eichen
might have the hydrophobia, he
promptly discharged the young man
who had saved his wife's life, and the
poor fellow, without money or friends,
was admitted to the hospital.
"A dreadful story is told of a Chill
ian of Los Andes. He had grudgc
against neighbor. and when small
pox recently appeared in the province
he obtained number of dried pustules
and put them inside plug of tobacco,
which he placed where the people he
hated were likely to see it. The neigh
bors found it. made cigarettes from il,
and smoked them. A few days after
ward smallpox broke out in the house.
and with such virulcnce that no one of
the family escaped. The fiend was at
tackled with the disease few days
afterward, and died after confessing
his crime. rsn .Ho4 fF
"A good many of the uncharitable
reports which appear frequently re-
specting the tendency OF Indian youths.
educated in the East, to degenerate
after returning TO their homes, ought
to be silcnced by letter of General
Armstrong. who says of twenty Indian
students who went back from Hamp-
ton to their Dakota reservation, that
all but three are doing very well as
laborers and mechanics, while some are
independent farmers. A captain of U.
S. Infantry denies statement, widely
printed, that any Hampton graduate
had part in the recent Arizona out
break. Congregationaliss.
In treating negro in Lcipsic for
for IN ulcerous affection, it was found
necessary to replace portions of the
skin with pieces taken from one or two
white persons. These latter pieces
gradually grew darker in color, and
finally rs black as the patients own
skin. This singular fact led to an ex-
pertinent being made of transposing
portions Of black skin on white pa
tent, and it was found that after 4 few
weeks these began to grow pale. In
less than fourteen weeks they had, in
fact, grown so white as not to be dis
: tinguishable from the patients natural
1 skin.--Boston Budget
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